Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Tracklist + Lyrics:

1. Good Day

   I'd like to say hello and welcome you good day that is my name
   Come here and sit down I'm so glad you even really truly came
   We can even go and take a walk or something like that or something like that
   But first I need to introduce my what and introduce my when

   Let us sing! (Ah...)

   Its name I like to call it likes to say it's nothing (it's nothing)
   It lives and breathes and it insists that it insists that it is something (it's something)
   It never liked to speak or run or walk or sleep or eat (oh oh oh...)
   It even thought that everybody tried to thought to take its seat

   Looking through glass eyes
   Give it a few tries
   Nothing goes right in its time
   Kill all its bad dreams
   Wonder 'bout no things
   Circles and spirals in mind

   But we know that this song is not about a no or yes or why
   What's really truly what I say is that about a little sigh
   So come along I think I'm done I think we're done yes this is done
   What's truly that I think about it and it thinks about a ton

   Let us sing! (Ah...)

   Looking through glass eyes
   Giving a few tries
   Nothing goes right in its time
   Kill all its bad dreams
   Wonder 'bout no things
   Circles and spirals in mind

   I thought you knew I knew but
   Why and by and why and by and by
   I wanted you to know
   I thought you knew but
   Why and by and why

   (Everyone loves a potato monkey...
   I stepped in gum! I stepped in gum! Ohoho!)

   Let us sing!...

   Birds and bees and television
   Cardboard houses, x-ray vision
   Many little silly rhymes
   Things forgotten lost their times
   Telephones and silly games
   Periods and lots of question marks 

2. Greener

   Here's that part again
   Where everything's more than it should be and
   Greener seems to fall beneath your feet

   Seconds tick like boulders
   Whenever you don't call
   Does it seem like that where you are
   Wherever it is you are
   Does it seem like that where you are... (yeah yeah yeah yeah)

   Time for time together
   And depending on the weather
   We'll either argue in your
   House or outside

   How different I felt
   Before I got this notch on my belt
   'cause in my plans you were all for me
   Yeah but now it seems that you'd just rather leave

   Wherever you go
   Is breaking me slowly
   Don't leave it alone
   Don't leave it alone
   You sound so much further on the phone
   You fit just right
   Right next to me
   But there's always a reason why it can't be

   Telephones make you seem miles away from home
   All alone I get a little meaner
   I leave a message at your tone
   And miles away from home
   You get a little cleaner of me
   And I find a little greener shade of envy

   Wherever you go
   Is breaking me slowly
   Don't leave it alone
   Don't leave it alone
   You sound so much further on the phone
   You fit just right
   Right next to me
   But there's always a reason why it can't be

   Tissues get used
   Getting rid of you
   Don't you see what you do to me
   And you just let it be

   I wish you'd get used
   And then come running back
   To the shoulder that's become me
   To the shoulder that's me

   Wherever you are
   Is breaking my heart
   Don't leave it alone
   Don't leave it alone

   You fit just right
   Right next to me

3. Welcome To Tally Hall

   Welcome to Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum
   Known from coast to coast like butter and toast
   From inland to Finland
   Uluru to Peru
   No other place is continued in the United States
   Or other environments of the world
   Welcome

   Can I get a T? ("T")
   And if you hit me with the A L L Y
   Then you'd see why
   The Hall is here for y'all
   The mini mall is calling us all in
   So kids, pack up your mom's car
   Back up the Windstar
   Kick it in drive and arrive at the mega mart
   Slide the side hatch with pride 'cause your ties match
   On booty duty like your name was Eddie Thatch

   W W T H D
   We like to kick it at the university
   But all work and no play makes us crazy
   So we jump in the bumping SUV
   Hit the street get the sweet tunes on
   Do a donut on your momma's front lawn
   And sooner than you know
   You found the rock'n'roll show
   At the Tizzy Hizzy we'll be gone

   We're in the mini mall
   Working the carnival
   We like to play it all
   Welcome to Tally Hall

   "Who's to blame?"
   The automated players, I proclaim
   Yellow tie, this suave fellow writes
   Heterophonic tunes of how love bites
   Red, the proud loud guy we adore
   "Is my amp too high?" "No, turn it up more!"
   So Grey in the back, sippin' 'gnac, can hear
   He's knockin' down the shots like Bill Laimbeer
   Send home the locksmith, Green's got keys
   To unlock the rock in the act if you please
   Now open the case, give Blue the bass
   And jiggle your badigle all over the place

   We're in the mini mall
   Working the carnival
   We like to play it all
   Welcome to Tally Hall

   Can I get a click
   Flick off the switch
   And we'll ignite the night in pitch
   Singin' songs you like to hear
   And the world will disappear
   Then we'll be glowing in the dark
   Lighting up the park
   Revealing that the Hall is the place that aims to please
   With unpredictable games and antiquities
   The collectibles so delectable
   The unreliable style's undetectable

   Like I might rap like an English chap
   Take you by the knickers and a bum you'll slap
   You didn't think we had the gall
   Well, bloody welcome to Tally Hall!

   We're stereosonic, we're animatronic
   We're rappin' with the robolectronic ebonics
   A quick distraction, a mechanic attraction
   Got a penny in your pocket for the slot
   Rock!

   Hey, ho, don't'cha know?
   It's a good old-fashioned puppet show!
   That's right, quite the set
   With a marionette quintet

   We think we're playing in a band
   We'd love to give you all a hand
   Woo!

   We're in the mini mall
   Working the carnival
   We like to play it all
   Welcome to Tally Hall

   We think we're playing in a band
   We'd love to give you all a hand
   We think we're playing in a band
   We'd love to give you all a hand

4. Taken For A Ride

   Marvin walked into a helpless land
   And wondered lightly am I happy?
   Is this happy?
   
   Following the footsteps left by man
   He stepped to reprimand the mystic
   Who's sadistic
   
   Took a step into the elevator
   Who said guess I'll see you later
   Don't you worry
   
   Fifteen flights that lasted nights
   And days that spent without a cent
   For creatures, with their beat shirts
   
   Listening to painted whispered
   Light on top forgotten hills
   
   Next the stranded senate of the white brick house
   With flowers asked some questions
   For their story
   
   All feeling now he took his bow
   And left the stage of time with no answers
   To no questions
   
   Lonely paperbacks that wanted
   Just a taste of feeling to implode them
   Before living
   
   Tiptoed to the wooden sign and said
   Now take your place in line for happy
   This is lovely
   
   Listening to painted whispered
   Light on top forgotten hills
   
   One secondary smile
   To go that extra mile
   To make me feel today
   To make it go away
   The chemistry is gone
   Taken for a ride
   Far away from you
   No longer left inside
   
   The actor with his world renown
   Was thinking 'bout his last real day of silence
   Was it over?
   
   Or is it just we all think
   That our answer isn't real, it's just a picture
   Of a letter
   
   Bumble Mumble, make the rounds
   No matter what, you'll seem profound
   It's useless just to worry
   
   Something normal happens
   Somewhere far away in clouds so please
   Stop thinking; this is happy
   
   Listening to painted whispered
   Light on top forgotten hills
   
   One secondary smile
   To go that extra mile
   To make me feel today
   To make it go away
   The chemistry is gone
   Taken for a ride
   Far away from you
   No longer left inside
   [x2]
   
   There no secrets in the door
   Just a moment doing chores (there's nothing there)
   And there's something
   And there's something
   And there's something
   And there's something
   Next to nothing
   And there's something
   And there's something
   But you're gone

5. The Bidding

   I've been sleeping in a cardboard box
   Spending every dollar at the liquor shop
   And even though I know I haven't got a lot
   I'll try to give you love until the day you drop

   I've been training like a Pavlov dog
   Send my independence out to take a hike
   All you got to do is activate my bell
   And I'll fetch you anything you like

   Going once
   Going twice
   Every man here has a price
   Over where
   Over there
   Sold to not a single lady in here

   I've been here like a thousand times
   Dated every woman in the atmosphere
   I've been to every continent
   Broken all the hearts in every hemisphere
   And if I'm not the type of guy you like to circumvent
   Just remember not to love me when I disappear

   I graduated at the top
   I like to take advantage of the bourgeoisie
   So if you have a fantasy of being a queen
   Maybe you should blow a couple bucks on me

   Going once
   Going twice
   Won't these gentlemen suffice?
   Any here
   Any there
   Any motions anywhere

   Going twice
   Going thrice
   Guess this means we'll go four times a lady

   I promise I'll be all you'll need
   Ever need
   You'll never have to shop around
   (Don't shop around)
   And I'll give you all you'll ever need
   Ever need
   Don't worry; I will never let you down
   Let you down
   Don't worry; I will never let you down

   So many ladies
   Are wanting for mates
   And the prospects are good
   But the date's never great
   Over here
   Over there
   Over where
   Anywhere
   They're too busy
   With winning
   The bidding
   To care
   And he's sold 

6. Be Born

   I suppose you're quite content
   In your swimming pool
   All you pink skinned babes are the same

   And you can't stay forever young
   So get out here and see the sun
   You're only six inches away from becoming one

   I was in your shoes before
   Or lack thereof
   And things worked out for me

   There's a dozen people here
   And they're waiting for you
   It's your party you can cry if you want to

   What if I told you
   I could show you something
   What if I told you
   I could make you live
   Follow my instruction
   Swim in the direction
   Of my voice
   Hear my voice
   Of my voice
   Hear my voice

   You think that you've seen it all
   In your little ball
   Man you're wrong and she's been waiting

   Long and hard to kiss your head
   And hold your hands
   And hold you while you fall asleep

   What if I told you
   I could show you something
   What if I told you
   I could make you live
   Follow my instruction
   Swim in the direction
   Of my voice
   Hear my voice
   Of my voice
   Hear my voice

   Ba ba ba...

   What if I told you
   I could show you something
   What if I told you
   I could make you live
   Follow my instruction
   Swim in the direction
   Of my voice
   Hear my voice
   Of my voice
   Hear my voice 

7. Banana Man

   (Ladies and gentleman, Colonel PT Chester Whitmore is proud to present:
   Bung Vulchungo and the Zimbabwe Songbirds!)

   Do you see Banana man
   Hopping over on the white hot sand
   Here he come with some for me
   Freshly taken from banana tree
   (1, 2, 3, 4)
   Banana man, me want a ton
   Give me double and a bonus one
   Give me more for all me friends
   Dis banana flow will never end

   Do you want a banana?
   Peel it down and go mm mm mm mm
   Do you want a banana?
   Dis banana for you

   Tonight we dance around a flame
   Then we get to play spirit game
   Spirit names we shout out loud
   Shake the thunder from the spirit cloud
   All the songbirds in the tree
   Chant a tune to let the spirits free
   Then we see them in the night
   Spirits jumpin' by the fire light

   Do you want a banana? (Do you want a banana?)
   Peel it down and go mm mm mm mm
   Do you want a banana? (Do you want a banana?)
   Dis banana for you

   Look you, you're too uptight you know
   You can laugh and kick it back and go
   But without a rhythm or a rhyme
   You do not banana all the time
   Fly away from city on the run
   Try to make a little fun

   Look you, come to the bungalow
   African't you tell me don't you so
   Don't you love the bumping of the drum
   Make you shake until the bum go numb
   Let the bongo play you till you drop
   Dis banana never stop (never stop, never stop)

   Forget all your troubles and go with the flow
   Forget about whatever you may never know
   Like whether whatever you are doing is whatever you should
   And whether anything you do is ever anything good
   And then forget about banana when it stick in your throat
   And when they make you wanna bellow but you're stuck in a choke
   And you forget about the yellow from the colorful man who make you take another one
   And make a mock of your plan

   Bungalay, Bungalow; make up your mind and tell me no

   Well it's nine o'clock and it's getting dark
   And the sun is falling from the sky
   I've never left so early and you may wonder why

   Tomorrow morning on the plane
   No banana make you go insane
   Floating back to busy town
   No banana make you want to frown

   Do you want a banana? (Do you want a banana?)
   Peel it down and go mm mm mm mm
   Do you want a banana?
   Dis banana for you 

8. Just Apathy

   I'm too much
   Or not enough
   Maybe everyone else is messed up
   Well anyway
   I can't seem to stay in just one state of mind

   Waiting round for something better
   I'm the one that wouldn't let her
   Now I'm back and forth
   I get bored when she's no perfect find

   'Cause it's one thing
   Or another
   I don't even know why I bother
   One thing just tears her down

   'Cause it's one thing
   Or another
   I don't even know why I bother
   Something I just can't get around

   Consider the possibility
   That you've been had but not by me
   We're just kids
   Don't worry about this

   My course is run and I'm so tired
   Until the next one comes inspired
   I feel bad and I should
   I made her sad and I knew it would

   'Cause it's one thing
   Or another
   I don't even know why I bother
   One thing just tears her down

   'Cause it's one thing
   Or another
   I don't even know why I bother
   Something I just can't get around

   I need to learn
   To wait in turn
   Cause now I just step blindly

   And I'm only happy when
   I can close my eyes and I just dive in
   And forget about about acting kindly

   ('Cause it's always one)
   'Cause it's one thing
   Or another
   I don't even know why I bother
   One thing just tears her down

   'Cause it's one thing
   Or another
   I don't even know why I bother

   Some things I just can't get around

   Still I know you won't let me down 

9. Spring And A Storm

   One time I tried to sing
   About spring and a storm
   But you know
   How it goes

   Blah blah blah blah
   Blah blah blah blah blah
   All along

   Won't you please stop complaining
   I'm playing a song

   But all the rain comes down the same
   Falling to from where it came
   On the ground then back around
   Up into the sky

   I wish you could have heard the music
   When the clouds growled overhead
   I finally felt enthusiastic
   I finally felt alive

   Blah blah blah blah
   Blah blah blah blah blah
   So you said

   Would it please you to listen
   To thunder instead

   Man the rain came down that day
   And it drained my soul away
   And I wondered why I even
   Bothered to try

   Mr. Moon (Yeah?)
   Tell us about the sky

   The sky is deep and dark and eternally high
   Many people think that's where you go when you die

   Do you?

   Well I think you return to obscure
   Or wherever you were
   Before you were
   But I won't let you lose yourself
   In the rain

   We have so much left to sing
   There's a storm for every spring
   All you see and you and me
   Became from a star

   You're a star
   Yes you are

   (Silent explosive and silent explosive and...)

   Create until nothing is left to create and
   The universe bursts with an overworked sigh then
   Pretend to pretend to re-crown the creation and
   Sing the same thing till the clouds start to cry and then
   Over and over and over again and then
   Over and over and
   Never again 

10. Two Love

    I have this little thing
    It's probably just a fling
    Two girls I like a lot
    I think they're really hot
    But I'm not sure if they know
    How my love began to grow
    It took a lot of time
    But right now it's solely mine

    (Today) I drew a mural of
    The things I'd like to love
    And where my heart resides
    Is with two girls with gray eyes

    If they just gave me a chance
    I'd show them what they want and teach 'em what they've got
    I'd tickle each and every one of their fancies
    And I'd take the key to my heart and open it and let the love shine through

    Mary Kate and Ashley, I hope you understand
    That I love you a lot and I wanna be your man
    And I think that it'd be totally cool
    If I hung around your apartments and enrolled in your school

    (Mary Kate) I saw you on TV
    You dressed up like a bee
    Reminds me of the time
    How it's gone and it's gone and it's gone
    It's sadness every day that passes
    Without you and I really want I really want
    I really wanna hold you both tight
    And tell you you're mine but instead I sing

    Mary Kate and Ashley, I hope you understand
    That I love you a lot and I wanna be your man
    And I think that it'd be totally cool
    If I hung around your apartments and enrolled in your school

    Mary Kate and Ashley I hope you understand
    That I love you a lot and I wanna be your man
    And I think that it'd be totally cool
    If I hung around your apartments and enrolled in your school

    I know that life without you and you would be sad
    And I know it'd be bad

    Mary Kate and Ashley I hope you understand
    That your loveliness blossomed
    And I wanna hold your hands
    And I think that it'd be totally cool
    If I hung around your apartments and enrolled in your school

    Mary Kate and Ashley I hope you understand
    That I love you a lot and I wanna be your man
    And I think that it'd be totally cool
    If I hung around your apartments and enrolled in your school

    Mary Kate and Ashley I hope you understand
    That I love you a lot and I wanna be your man
    And I think that it'd be totally cool
    If I hung around your apartments and enrolled in your school

    Once you learn to love me
    Life will be all right

    Once you learn to love me
    Life will be all right

    Once you learn to love me
    Life will be all right

11. Haiku

    I have been trying
    To write a haiku for you
    Some things I just can't do

    Maybe you're beyond
    Ancient Asian poetry
    Or maybe it's just me

    I have been trying
    To get this haiku just right
    All night for you all right

    I'm through!

    Maybe this poem
    Was lost in the sauce we spilled
    That never got refilled

    I've never thought much
    Of formulaic verse anyway
    And rhymes are not my fort-

    I have been trying
    To get this haiku just right
    All night for you all right

    I'm through!

    I'm trying not to try too hard
    But you're hard to write down right
    So I pen these trite attempts
    At haikus for you tonight

    La da dee diddum
    Lada da dum doo diddle
    Dum doo la dee do

    There that's sufficient
    I wrote a haiku for you

    Well I tried at least
    And that's not so bad
    I'm working here
    Can that be said for you?

    I'm trying not to try too hard
    But you're hard to write down right
    So I pen these trite attempts
    At haikus for you tonight

    Words don't work like Webster says
    They trip me up all night
    I'm just trying to write for you
    But you're hard to write down right 

12. The Whole World And You

    There's lots of pretty people here
    Sharing sotries and passing letters and
    There's lots of questions answered and
    Metaphysical astronomical songs
    Words printed all on papers
    That seemed too mystical
    It's so magical
    People that dance and compute that
    No one's better than you

    La la la...

    There's kings in distant cities
    Who rule their persons and
    Make them happy and
    We won't forget about all the
    Servisory congratulatory
    Even the animals know that something's brewing
    And they're all cooing
    Cause in the end I'd like to say
    No one's better than you

    I hope you're happy now
    I've revealed the truth
    I've even written this whole song about you
    And not about me
    And not about me

    Please don't just laugh and clap right now
    This is serious
    I'm not delirious
    I've waited very patiently
    Just to let you know
    Who should run the show
    'Cause we all know these are the facts
    Nothing to retract
    Nothing too abstract
    Concluding in the song
    I'll say
    No one's better than you
    No one's better than you
    No one's better than
    You 

13. 13
14. Ruler Of Everything

    Juno was mad
    He knew he'd been had
    So he shot at the sun with a gun
    Shot at the sun with a gun
    Shot at his wily one only friend

    In the gallows or the ghetto
    In the town or the meadow
    In the billows even over the sun
    Every end of the time is another begun

    You understand
    Mechanical hands
    Are the ruler of everything (ah)
    Ruler of everything (ah)
    I'm the ruler of everything
    In the end

    Do you like how I dance?
    I've got zirconium pants!
    Consequential enough
    To slip you into a trance

    Do you like how I walk?
    Do you like how I talk?
    Do you like how my face
    Disintegrates into chalk?

    I have a wonderful wife
    I have a powerful job
    She criticizes me for being egocentric (ha ha ha)

    You practice your mannerisms
    Into the wall
    If this mirror were clearer
    I'd be standing so tall

    I saw you slobber over clovers on the side of the hill
    I was observing the birds
    Circle in for the kill

    I've been you
    I know you
    Your facade is a scam

    You know you're making me cry
    This is the way that I am

    I've been living a lie
    A metamorphical scheme
    Detective undercover brotherhood
    Objective: obscene

    Oh no, no
    Oh yeah

    Do you hear the flibbity jibbity jibber jabber
    With an oh my god I've got to get out of here or I'll have another
    Word to sell
    Another story to tell
    Another time piece ringing the bell
    Do you hear the clock stop when you reach the end
    No
    You know it must be never ending
    Comprehend if you can
    But when you try to pretend to understand
    You resemble a fool
    Although you're only a man
    So give it up and
    Smile

    You understand
    Mechanical hands
    Are the ruler of everything (ah)
    Ruler of everything (ah)
    I'm the ruler of everything
    In the end

    Without looking down
    Gliding around
    Like a bumbling dragon I fly
    Scraping my face on the sky

    Oh no, no
    Oh yeah 

15. Hidden In The Sand

    We were playing in the sand
    And you found a little band
    You told me you fell in love with it
    Hadn't gone as I planned

    When you had to bid adieu
    Said you'd never love anew
    I wondered if I could hold it
    And fall in love with it too

    You told me to buy a pony
    But all I wanted was you